The Great Plant-Based Con

By Jayne Buxton,

Book cover of The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet

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'The most incredible book' Delia Smith

'Persuasive, entertaining and well researched' Sunday Times

Plant-based is best for health, go vegan to help save the planet, eat less meat... Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy -…

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1 author picked The Great Plant-Based Con as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is very well researched, and despite a lot of information, is very clearly presented. 

This book started my process from leaving behind 30 years of being a vegetarian to now eating meat from animals that are grass-fed (and grass-finished, when possible), and supporting regenerative farming – a change that is much better for my health and for the planet.

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